Andrews Forest Log
A custom WordPress archive for a 200-year cultural collection inspired by Oregon's H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest.
The Andrews Forest Log dates to 2004 and the start of the Spring Creek Project’s Long-Term Ecological Reflections program at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, an old-growth research forest in Oregon’s Cascade Range. The program invites writers, artists, and musicians to live at the forest for up to two weeks, connect with the scientists who work there, and create new work informed by their experience. The writers Robin Wall Kimmerer and Robert Michael Pyle were its first residents, and the forest has welcomed more than 100 since the program began. The Forest Log collects the work residents choose to share and will continue to grow for 200 years, to show how people’s relationships with the forest persist or change over time.
Website Design
Because the Andrews Forest Log’s collection keeps growing, we built their WordPress website for visitors to explore by genre, by decade, or by the person who made each piece. We chose a quiet, simple design, to let the residents’ work shine. Everyone who has taken part in the program has a bio on the site, including those who chose to publish their work somewhere else, and their page lists any pieces they have shared. The program’s staff at Oregon State University can put each new group of residents and their work on the site, alongside those who came to the forest before them.
Website Hosting & Maintenance
The Andrews Forest Log’s collection is meant to grow for 200 years, so we host their website with the long run in mind. A backup is made every month, and our monitoring runs around the clock. When WordPress or one of the site’s plugins has an update, we apply it, to keep the collection open to readers well into the future.
03 — The Work
Readers meet the residents through their work.
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